In this series we take a look at museums and galleries, but not in terms of content, but from an architectural and Institutional point of view. There are real jewels, and on the proposal of my friend and habitual collaborator Shirley Rebuffo we publish images and information on the construction and characteristics of buildings that house the collections of this art that we love and that from this blog we help to spread day by day .

As a general line, we will go through museums that we have personally visited.

The Museum operates from the donation of 200 works by Eduardo F. Costantini (see below). This collection is made up of works by prominent Latin American contemporary artists: Frida Khalo, Diego Rivera, Guillermo Kuitca, Roberto Matta, Pedro Figari and Antonio Berni, among others.

The institution aims to collect, preserve, study and disseminate 20th-century and contemporary Latin American art. It is a private non-profit institution that preserves and exhibits a heritage that currently consists of about 400 works of the main modern and contemporary artists of the region.

The institution shows a permanent collection that combines with a calendar of temporary exhibitions and simultaneously works as a plural space for the production of cultural and educational activities. It offers cycles of cinema, literature and design, and carries out an educational task through programs aimed at different types of audiences. In May 2007, the Malba was declared a Site of Cultural Interest by the Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. In November 2008 he received the Konex Platinum Award for Best Cultural Entity of the Last Decade.

Recently, in February 2017, Eduardo F. Costantini was awarded the "A" Prize for Collecting that the Arco Foundation awarded in Madrid, Spain.

The building is a work of art in itself. Designed and built for this purpose, in 1998 in the framework of the VII Biennial of Architecture of Buenos Aires, BA / 97. The winning architectural project - which has multiple prizes and international mentions - was elaborated by the Cordoba studio AFT Arquitectos, composed by Gastón Atelman, Martin Fourcade and Alfredo Tapia. The project was developed with the purpose of integrating the building into the city and generating an environment conducive to enjoy the works of art, complying with international standards of exhibition and conservation. The architectural program consisted of an entrance hall, permanent and temporary exhibition rooms, sculpture terraces, an auditorium, restaurant, shop, office areas, conservation and maintenance workshops, general warehouse, engine room and intelligence center .

It was officially inaugurated in 2001. It is an imposing construction of stone and glass of a complete block that harmonizes in its forms with the streets and avenues that surround it.

In its exhibition rooms comes a natural light, perfect for a magnificent observation of the works. The main rooms can be compartmentalized in different galleries and are adapted to the different formats that demand the exhibition of permanent collection and temporary shows.

It is a center of vanguard that gives rise to the interdisciplinary diffusion of all the artistic activities. There are conferences, events, congresses, independent film festivals, screenings of author films, talks with writers, premieres, special shows and cultural activities for children.

Eduardo Francisco Costantini is an Argentine real estate developer and businessman and the founder and chairman of the MALBA.

He was born in Buenos Aires in 1946. He is a Bachelor in Economics graduated from Universidad Católica Argentina (1971) and Master of Arts in Quantitative Economics from the University of East Anglia, England (1975). Wikipedia

Shirley Rebuffo has a Degree in Library Science and a Degree in Archivology by the Universitary School of Library and Related Sciences, Technician in Museology by the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences (Anthropology option) (Republic University Montevideo, Uruguay) and is art and painting student under Master Eduardo Espino.

This is an open art blog, so you could find images eventually offensive or umconfortable.

If you're an artist and find here images of your art you want to be removed, just tell me and I'll do it immediately. I try to ask for permission always if artist is alive and there's a way to contact, bot not always is possible and there are things I think worth to be known.

In any case, the copyrights of all the images contained in this blog, except where noted, belong to the artists or the legal owners of such rights, and have been published nonprofit and for the only purpose of make the works known to the general public.

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